Driving the Lincoln Highway, Chicago to Rochelle, Illinois, in 1915

Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 036

by VARIOUS ( - )

Eighteen short nonfiction works in the public domain, independently chosen by the readers. Topics include the discovery of X-rays, earthquakes, Hegel, Sir William Osler, Charles William Eliot, Oscar Wilde, Charles Sumner, Monica Lewinsky, and Anita Loos; the Lincoln highway, joys of gardening, goldfish, skunk raising, and the cultivation of tobacco. "Earthquakes" was co-authored by Louis Pakiser. (summary by Sue Anderson)

Listen next episodes of Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 036:
A Swimmer's Status - Beaurepaire Ruled Not an Amateur , A Treatise on the Culture of the Tobacco Plant , A Way of Life , An Interview with Anita Loos, Wireless Magazine, 1922 , Earthquakes , Five American Contributions to Civilization , Goldfish , No Tax On Books, 1864 , On a New Kind of Rays , On Gardening , Oscar Wilde: An Idler's Impression , Practical Skunk Raising , The Handwriting on the Screen: An Interview with Anita Loos, Everybody's Magazine, 1917 , The Philosophy of Religion, excerpts , The Questioning Mania